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All happy families : a memoir
- Title
- All happy families : a memoir / Hervé Le Tellier ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.
- Author
- Le Tellier, Hervé, 1957-
- Publication
- New York : Other Press, [2019]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-3335 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- Hunter, Adriana
- Description
- 175 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "A prominent French writer delves into his own history in this eloquent reflection on dysfunctional family relationships. Herve Le Tellier did not consider himself to have been an unhappy child--he was not deprived, or beaten, or abused. And yet he understood from a young age that something was wrong, and longed to leave. Children sometimes have only the option of escaping, and owe to that escape their even greater love of life. Having reached a certain emotional distance at sixty years old, and with his father and stepfather dead and his mother suffering from late-stage Alzheimer's disease, Le Tellier finally felt able to write the story of his family. Abandoned early by his father and raised in part by his grandparents, he was profoundly affected by his relationship with his mother, a troubled woman with damaging views on love. In this perceptive, deeply personal account, Le Tellier attempts to look back on trying times in his life without anger or regret, and even with humor"--
- Uniform Title
- Toutes les familles heureuses. English
- Alternative Title
- Toutes les familles heureuses.
- Subjects
- Authors, French
- Families
- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Authors, French > 21st century > Biography
- Le Tellier, Hervé, 1957- > Childhood and youth
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- 1900-2099
- Le Tellier, Hervé, 1957- > Family
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Authors, French > 20th century > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Note
- "Originally published in French as Toutes les familles heureuses in 2017 by Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, Paris."
- Call Number
- JFD 19-3335
- ISBN
- 9781590519370
- 159051937X
- LCCN
- 2018031467
- OCLC
- 1043203644
- 1043203644
- Author
- Le Tellier, Hervé, 1957- author.
- Title
- All happy families : a memoir / Hervé Le Tellier ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.
- Publisher
- New York : Other Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Added Author
- Hunter, Adriana, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Le Tellier, Hervé, 1957- author. All happy families New York : Other Press, [2019] 9781590519387 (DLC) 2018056732
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-3335